Specifications

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Playback to an External NTSC or
PAL Video Monitor
(Avid Nitris DX, Mojo DX, or Mojo SDI Only)
Media Composer requires an Avid video periph-
eral for high-quality, frame edge-aligned play-
back of SD video (or 1080 HD video converted to
SD video) to an external NTSC or PAL monitor.
Symphony requires an Avid Nitris DX periph-
eral for video output.
When outputting 1080 HD video using this con-
figuration, you can either transcode an HD se-
quence to SD video or down-convert an entire
HD project to SD video in real time.
When using an Avid Nitris DX or Mojo DX pe-
ripheral,1080 HD video can be down-converted
to SD video in real time, in software mode.
Hardware-based down-convert is not supported
with Video Satellite.
Playback to an External HD-SDI
Video Monitor
(Avid Nitris DX or Mojo DX Only)
Media Composer requires an HD-capable Avid
video peripheral (Nitris DX or Mojo DX) for
high-quality, frame edge-aligned playback of
native HD video to an external HD-SDI monitor.
Symphony requires an Avid Nitris DX periph-
eral for video output
Full-Screen Playback using DVI
Output to a Computer Monitor
With a supported video card installed,
Media Composer Video Satellite provides full-
screen playback of SD or HD video through a
DVI port to your primary or secondary com-
puter monitor.
When you play back video on a monitor with a
refresh rate that differs from the video frame
rate (as is often the case during playback of
video through a DVI output), the output yields
visual artifacts and offsets in synchronization
between audio and video. For example, this oc-
curs during playback of a 24 fps video clip on a
DVI monitor with a refresh rate of 75 Hz.
720p projects cannot be down-converted.
If your workflow requires high-quality
playback, you must output video through an
Avid video peripheral to an NTSC or PAL
monitor for SD and downconverted HD, or to
an HDMI or HD-SDI monitor for native HD.
For detailed information on the quality of
DVI output to your primary or secondary
monitor, see Chapter 3, “Video Satellite
Workflows.”